sonorous : Idioms & Phrases


Sonorous figures

  • (Physics), figures formed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musical tone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a piece of glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arranges itself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also acoustic figures.
Webster 1913

Sonorous tumor

  • (Med.), a tumor which emits a clear, resonant sound on percussion.
Webster 1913